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Einstein: Cosmic Religious Sense:
"popular science cosmology has also from time to time been aided by scientists who ‘wrest order out of chaos.’ finally, according to the legend, probability and science together have now provided us with an extraordinarily well-organized chemical, physical, and biological world within a Universe of gratifying regularities.
"The scientific record refutes this a priori chaos scheme. Every great scientist who has documented the events surrounding his major discovery has documented the fact that, in comparison to his crude hypothesizing, his discovery has disclosed a sublime regularity of nature. The regularities of nature are governed by pure mathematical principles. Thus, since principles are inherently weightless and infinite-- that is, endless-- the Universe could never have been chaotic and thus has no beginning.
“In 1930 Einstein wrote of the nonanthropomorphic conception of god and of the cosmic religious sense, asserting that the great scientists such as Kepler who had been called heretics were indeed the most profoundly religious men when appraised in a cosmic, nonanthropomorphic sense. Einstein said, 'What an”
